Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

XX Power to remove the Suspension from Canonries under special Circumstances.

And be it enacted, That a Plan may from Time to Time be laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England by any of the said Chapters of the several Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with the Sanction of the Visitors of the said Churches respectively, for removing the Suspension from and re-establishing any Canonry or Canonries which shall have been suspended by or under the Provisions of this Act, by assigning towards the Re-endowment of any such Canonry or Canonries a Portion of the divisible Corporate Revenues remaining to the said Chapters respectively, after paying to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners the Profits and Emoluments accruing to the said Commissioners from the suspended Canonry or Canonries, so that the Profits and Emoluments of such suspended Canonry or Canonries be not diminished by the Removal of such Suspension ; and also by accepting and assigning for the same Purpose any further Endowment in Money, or in Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments, such Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments not exceeding in yearly Value the Sum of Two hundred Pounds for each Canonry from which the Suspension shall have been so removed ; and also by annexing to any such Canonry from which the Suspension shall have been so removed any suitable Benefice or other Preferment in the Patronage of the said Chapters respectively, or of any other Patron, with the Consent of such Patron, and where any Bishop is Patron, with Consent of the Archbishop ; and any such Plan may be carried into effect by the Authority hereinafter provided, and such Alterations may be made in the existing Statutes and Rules of the said Chapters respectively, as the Case may require, under the Authority herein provided for making Alterations in existing Statutes.